Social Stereotypes In Disney's First Animated Film Snow White

In Disney’s first animated Disney film, first released in 1938, we first meet the character of Snow White. Snow White’s appearance, throughout the entire franchise, is having a very pale, almost white complexion, (Hart, 2022) large, wide eyes, rosy cheeks, a high-pitched, innocent tone to her voice, and a small body frame. (Matyas, 2010) Throughout the film, Snow White’s nature is presented as weak and naïve, in which her storyline is driven by these traits as she foolishly falls into the jealous Evil Queen’s trap. (Krishna, 2022) The presentation of Snow White, being conventionally beautiful, naïve, concerned with her appearance, and sensitive (Krishna, 2022), contrasting with the presentation of the evil queen, being envious, – one of the seven deadly sins – vile, cunning, wicked, unpleasant to look at, and overall being an unlikeable character to the audience (Krishna, 2022), begins to create the social stereotype within the franchise, that your beauty depicts whether you are a good person or not; similarly to what Anderson said, ‘The story gives mixed

To ensure she is protected from evil, the dwarves make an agreement, that they will protect Snow White if she undertakes domestic jobs; for example, cooking for them, cleaning for them and predominantly being their figure for dependence, while Snow White becomes theirs, relying on the seven dwarves for safety. (Matyas, 2010) Furthermore, as this causes her role to be entirely domestic, as we see through her cooking and cleaning for the seven dwarves, a further social stereotype is created, which will develop through sub-sequential Disney Films, that women are supposed to engage wholly in these domestic and submissive chores (Krishna, 2022), correspondingly to what Harrison, 2012, said, ‘A woman is considered to be a homemaker, naïve and lacking in common